Word: pretzels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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First there were mix-ins. Then came oreo ice cream. Waffle cones hit the ice cream scene next, and they were soon followed by dipped waffle cones. Now the latest in the Harvard Square ice cream war: Emack & Bolio has added the pretzel cone...
...extra 50 cents, ice cream connoisseurs can now enjoy a new taste sensation--the ice cream flavor of their choice in what looks like a cone but is really a pretzel...
...international samplings. In front of David's Cookies on Brattle Street, tacos, egg rolls, and bratwurst were sold, and further down the street one could buy "Italian sausage, delicious Shishkabob, and Teryaki-on-a stick" from the same stand. Along JFK street Piggie King, Johnnie's Munchie Machine, pretzel sellers and the Slush King attracted visitors to the square...
Luckily, the Din and Tonics took care of the candy blues by leading the visitors in a rendition of "Conjunction Junction," as they headed off to broom races and a pretzel eating contest...
...daughter Allison in 1977 when she heard a distinct pop in the child's leg. Ordinarily an infant's bones are so pliable that considerable force is required to break them, but in Allison's case, the tibia, the major bone of the lower leg, had snapped like a pretzel. When doctors examined the child, they found that she was suffering from a rare congenital defect known as pseudarthrosis (false joint) of the tibia. In the one out of 140,000 children who is born with this condition, a leg bone may be so weak and unstable that it gives...